[PIG-3733] Pig fails to concatenate semi-colon in generate statement

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 0.11.1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: sudhir mallem
• Created: 30/Jan/14 08:56
• Updated: 02/Apr/14 20:36
• Resolved: 02/Apr/14 20:36

Description

Pig fails to concatenate semi-colon to a column in a generate statement. I've tried multiple ways including unicode version (
u003B), but fails.

grunt> a = load '/user/smallem/mem.csv' using PigStorage('|') as (uid:int, sid:chararray);
grunt> b = foreach a generate uid as uid, CONCAT('v=1;',sid) as sids;
<line 3, column 0>  mismatched character '<EOF>' expecting '''
2014-01-30 08:51:51,759 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR 1200: <line 3, column 0>  mismatched character '<EOF>' expecting '''
Details at logfile: /export/home/smallem/pig_1391071809426.log

The same however works when used nested statement.

grunt> a = load '/user/smallem/mem.csv' using PigStorage('|') as (uid:int, sid:chararray);
grunt> b = foreach a {                                                                    
>>         x = CONCAT('v=1;',sid);
>>         generate uid as memberuid, x as sids ;
>> };
grunt>